Tomahittan?

[ROOD DAVID S]

Dear Rory,
	That cluster is one of the few places where Lakota and Dakota
diverge sharply.  In Lakota it's "gl" but in Dakota it's "hd".  One
frequent place where it shows up is as you said -- for the possessive
forms of y- stem verbs.

	David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Rory M Larson wrote:

> I'm wondering what OP gdh- looks like in other Siouan languages, especially
> Proto-Siouan and Southeastern?  I think I understand that words like gdhe,
> gdhaN, gdhiN, gdhi, etc, reflect an original *kire', *kiraN', *kiriN',
> *kiri', with the initial *ki- being a possessive or reflexive 'action with
> respect to self' element.  Is this correct?
>
> Rory
>